I'm using WMM to trim audio off the ends of a WMA file. I understand these
edit points are stored as metadata and the audio is not really hacked out of
the file. That makes sense while you are "in production" but I expected "save
as..." to boiled off the fat. Playing my file in WMP instead of skipping over
the trimmed audio at the beginning of the clip, WMP just "plays" silence for
the duration of the trim and then starts emitting sound at the end of the
trim. Unfortunately this is not the behavior I expect

My preference would be some means of "commiting" the edit list and actually
generating a smaller file that will without fail NOT play the trimmed
sections. My second choice would be a "fix" for WMP so that it would "do the
right thing" when seeing the trim metadata.

Roland Alden wrote:
> I'm using WMM to trim audio off the ends of a WMA file. I
> understand these edit points are stored as metadata and
> the audio is not really hacked out of the file. That
> makes sense while you are "in production" but I expected
> "save as..." to boiled off the fat. Playing my file in
> WMP instead of skipping over the trimmed audio at the
> beginning of the clip, WMP just "plays" silence for the
> duration of the trim and then starts emitting sound at
> the end of the trim. Unfortunately this is not the
> behavior I expect
>
> My preference would be some means of "commiting" the edit
> list and actually generating a smaller file that will
> without fail NOT play the trimmed sections. My second
> choice would be a "fix" for WMP so that it would "do the
> right thing" when seeing the trim metadata.
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I'm guessing you are splitting the
clip and muting the unwanted portions?
Try deleting the unwanted portions.

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John Inzer
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Thank you. I couldn't figure out how to select the "empty space" to delete it
but I was able to drag the unclipped audio left to time zero.

Now if import would just capture all the original metadata so you don't have
to enter all that by hand